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浙江省湖州市南浔区八校联考2024-2025学年八年级上学期11月期中考试英语试题
Do you know Guinness Book of World Records(《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》)? It tells us the fastest and the strongest people in sports, the strongest and the shortest people or buildings, the fattest and the thinnest, the best and the worst in the world. All the records in the book are all true.
Are these records boring? Of course not. It is a wonderful book and it has world records for everyday things. For example, the largest picnic blanket(野餐毯) is 1, 760 square meters. The heaviest lemon is 5, 265 kilograms. The smallest working dog is about 3 pounds, and it is only a little heavier than twelve eggs.
There are some funny records as well. A T-shirt was made to set a record. It's about a hundred times bigger than an usual T-shirt and it took almost 11, 000 hours to make it by hand. The most people for watching a basketball game is 3, 589 million(百万) for NBA in 1998.
Guinness Book of World Records is so interesting that it is a hit among the best-sellers. There are over 100 million copies(册) around the world. If you want to take a look at it, get one and find out those surprising records!
What should mobile phone buttons(按键) look like? What are Shakespeare's artistic achievements? {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
As new technologies continue to develop, many students are choosing to study STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math) so they can get good jobs later. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}They need ideas from artists, historians and sociologists(社会学家)— in other words, people who major in liberal arts(主修文科).
Learning how to program is not enough. The US writer Scott Hartley mentioned it in his book. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} He points out that soft skills, including communication, collaboration(合作) and understandings of social problems, are of equal importance.
One possible solution is to put liberal arts and STEM studies together. In fact, Lewis University in the US has started to offer a set of courses called " CS + X".{#blank#}4{#/blank#} At the University of Vermont, a program called Engineering Management connects engineering with business. Engineers need to understand markets while business people need to learn engineering.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#}Only when we know this, can we create the greatest technology with humanity.
A. Perhaps liberal arts and science should never be separated. B. Students had better study both STEM subjects and liberal arts majors. C. If a driverless car is forced to run into someone, should it have a choice? D. But questions like the ones above are hard for STEM students to answer. E. Some students prefer STEM subjects while others prefer liberal arts majors. F. He argues against the idea that liberal arts are no longer useful in today's world. G. These courses connect computer science with a liberal arts major. |
Bamboo |
Family: grass |
Kinds: more than 1, 000 |
Size: from a few centimetres to over thirty metres |
Distribution: People can see bamboo mostly in East and Southeast Asia and on islands of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean(太平洋). |
Fun facts: ·It is the main source of food for giant pandas. ·Many types of bamboo only flower once in a lifetime. ·A bamboo forest can grow from one bamboo plant. |
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